As she moved around the cabin opening windows, she examined every inch of the floor for possible entry routes a snake might utilize.

She had been a virtual prisoner in the cabin since she had seen the snake on the porch.

You never said anything about a snake before.

Then, never taking her gaze off the snake, she backed down the steps.

Do you know there was a huge snake waiting for me right there in front of the door yesterday when I came home?

It's a snake and you almost stepped on it.

The reptiles include the ringed-snake, slow-worm, viper and lizard.

One of the most important was the passing of a golden snake under the clothes of the initiated across their bosom and its withdrawal from below - an old rite of adoption.

He was your horse, but if I'd been riding any other horse, that snake would have scared them.

Extending the broom as far as possible, she nudged the snake gently.

While in Thrace he is said to have caused the death of Eurydice, who was bitten by a snake while fleeing from him.

It contained a shrine of the Cretan snake goddess, and was rich in minor relics, chiefly in the shape of bronze implements and pottery for household use.

A poisonous but beautiful green snake is often mentioned by travellers.

From the snake bite?

Among the inoffensive species are counted the graceful green "tree snake," which pursues frogs, birds and lizards to the topmost branches of the forest; also several species of pythons, the commonest of which is known as the carpet snake.

In a nanosecond she realized that the snake was going to strike.

A hooded snake (Naja haemachates), the imfezi of the natives, is dangerous, and spits or ejects its poison; besides this there are a few other varieties of the cobra species.

Snakes are common, an adder, a variegated rock snake and a Hadramut with forty followers about the 13th century.

These legends should perhaps be interpreted as pointing to a black snake ailed muss being those most dreaded.

She leaned against a pine tree, her gaze falling on a little green snake with stripes on it.